The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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